Louis Mims

My art allows me a freedom to understand and explore my environment aesthetically. Perception becomes a theme in statement. Technique is a means of articulation. Thru the combining of different materials I have a sense of balance in the visual dialogue. There are times when I will seek process over statement realizing that process often times is a statement in itself, to be able to sacrifice existing norms for the sake of allowing the work to move in a new/different direction. Experimentation becomes the fun in creativity. Found objects, odd angles, multi layered forms, colored textures, all combine for uncontrolled balanced in the work.
I am influenced by abstraction found in both African and European aesthetic traditions. This becomes the basis of all visual interaction. I see objects as graphic energy intersecting three dimensionally. I remain interested in the energy produced by multi-cultural stresses that occurs when iconography is place out of contents in media. As I become aware of my own mortality, art becomes more than environment, relationship, process or social necessity, but will.